Adil Ahmad Haque

Professor of Law and Judge Jon O. Newman Scholar

Professor Haque joined the Rutgers faculty in the Fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Law. His scholarship focuses on criminal law, international criminal law, and the law of armed conflict.

Professor Haque received his J.D. in 2005 from Yale Law School, where he was executive editor of the Yale Journal of International Law and senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. From 2005 to 2006, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. For two years prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Haque was an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he focused on white-collar criminal investigations and prisoners’ rights litigation.

Professor Haque is a member of the Associate Graduate Faculty of the Rutgers University Department of Philosophy. He serves on the editorial boards of Law and Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. He is currently writing a book on the moral foundations of the law of armed conflict for Oxford University Press.